River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-01-06
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Florence was the first to make full
payment into the State treasury of the
tax due from that county, $1,S74.16.
Steps have been taken TO build a
100000 opera house at Madison, and
company Incorporated for that pur-
pose.
j. |. Case has purchased one-third
interest in the famous stallion Sultan of
W. Ii. Wilson. of Cynthiana. Ky, pay
ing s. 900. The animal will be placed
in the stud in Kentucky.
Frank Hewitt's minstrel company
met the financial wolf at Beloit. The
boN-ofiice receipts were attached for a
hotel bill and the members of the COM
pany had to sell personal effects to get
back to Chicago.
At La Crosse, during 1856 there was
expended 1890, $50 for business and
public buildings. dwellings and inn
provements to dwellings: water. sewer
and gas pipes costing 100000 were laid;
the railways expended for permanent
way in city limits $780,. 500. al making
a grand total of $1,5l3.350
January l>t. the extensive charcoal
and ore sheds IF the York Iron COM
pany, adjoining their furnace ut Black
River Falls, were destroyed by fire. 1t
was undoubtedly the work of fire bug.
Loss. $4,000.
In the Pekin county county-seat
matter Judge Bundy has issued man
damus requiring the canvasers to count
the votes cast ut the late election for
the return of the county seat TO Durand.
and TO report nj Eau Claire at once. also
10 pay all costs.
Frank Metz of Oshkosh, has returned
from New Orleans with $50. 600 won
by him at a recent drawing of a public
lottery. He is brother of Mrs. Gun
Their, wife Of the congressman. and
junior member of the firm of FUgelberg
& Metz. vinegar manufacturers.
j. l. Case of Racine. made his son
jackson Christmas present ola $4,000
interest in the Case threshing machine
works. Young Mr.. Case recently
married and has settled down to bust
ness and domestic life under happy.
suspicious circumstances.
The official bond of State Treasurer
Harshaw Is for 5000. zoe. and is signed
by Senator Sawyer. ), NJ. Hay. J. II.
Porter and :. w. HolliSter. of Oshkosh:
r. b. Kellogg, of Green Bay. and C. b.
Clark. of Neenah,
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being developed. The Wisconsin
Natural Gas and Mining company has
received two carloads Of machinery
and has begun the work of sinking test
wells on the Peter Killian property
where gas was discharged last August
while digging a well. This company
has penetrated the earth 1jS feet If
gas is not found other wells will be sunk
A couple of men came out of the
woods at Merrill, claiming to have
worked for Cotter * Smith. and pro-
cceded TO celebrate New Years by forg-
ing time checks for fifteen days work.
OF which they procured dinner nj Me
Quillan's station and arriving in town
went to Heineman - dry goods and pur-
chased two coats, leaving the checks
and then disappeared.
At Beloit. on the 31st ult., a small
boiler used for power purposes in the
woodworking shop of c. o. Warner
exploded. SCATTERING machinery which
stood near and blowing out the glass
from all the windows of the shop. be-
sides doing other damage. The pro-
prietor, his son and another man were
i'm the shop only Twenty-Five feet from
the boiler. but were not hurt. The eX-
plosion was undoubtedly caused by an
over-pressure of steam.
The mineral resources of Wisconsin,
seem 10 be constantly developing Near
AnnatOn there is a spring in in which
oil can be seen coming out in good
quantities on top of rock on the
surface Of the ground. Being shown
10 an old miner from PENNSYLVANIA.
he pronounced it a rich specimen of
iron ore. The idea that there is a good
bed of IRON in the vicinity Is held by
number of men. and they 90 so far a
to claim that natural gas and oil could
be found in large quantities bya little
boring. 1t IS known that coal has been
fomnd in small quantities few miles
south of Lancaster. and the man who
Is an old miner declares that he can
point to a good bed of coal in the vicin-
itv Near Hurricane there is a spring
which if a match be lighted over the
mouth viii set on fire gas which Will
burn for some time,
4 few days ago a number of Milwau-
kee sportsmen held a meeting TO con-
slider the ACCESSIBILITY of drafting and
submitting to the legislature more cflec-
tive measures for the protection of game
in the state. After discussing the crueL
and wanton slaughter of game through
out the state and the inadequacy of the
present laws in this regard, il was unan-
imously resolved that bills be drafted
and submitted to the legislature embody-
ing the following: lst, 10 prohibit
spring shooting. 2nd. a provision in
relation To trespasS. 3rd. measure
for the appointment of game and fish
wardens. 4 committee consisting of
j. V Quarle>. A. X. Delaney and X.
ID. Whitehead. with power to add three
others to their number was appointed
by the chairman. Louis Auer. to lso
discretionary power in drafting the
above bills and presenting them to the.
legislature.